Yellowjackets is about many things. At first glance it follows a high school football team who lives in the wilderness after surviving a plane crash, as well as their older counterparts who count with the Fallout decades later. It is also about friendship, girls, growing up and cannibalism.
The female characters treat a lot of anger in both timelines. In addition to the frustrating moments of daily life, they have pent up trauma of having trouble surviving, which led them to literally eat their friends on several occasions.
Melanie Lynskey plays like Shauna, a housewife in the suburbs who hides dark secrets – perhaps the darkest of all her former teammates – about what happened in the wilderness 25 years ago. In a viral February 5 interview ViewShe said she related to the anger of her character.
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“I have never met a woman who could not relate to having quite a bit of anger, the way the world is always furious during the day,” Lynskey said in the talk show during the day. “I really enjoyed the fact that [Shauna] Has it so hard to stop. She does her best, but she is also a very complicated person with so much anger. “
In an interview with Yahoo Entertainment, Lynskey said that Shauna’s sorrow about losing her best friend (whose body the team later eats) and her newborn baby in the wilderness manifests herself as anger, which is “a cool thing to show for one Female character “, especially in the earlier timeline, in which Shauna is depicted by Sophie Nélisse.
“It’s not beautiful. She does not suffer in a corner. She is ready to shit, “said Lynskey. “As an adult, she really does her best to go there and be a normal person, but she is still so angry. … this season shows that she hugs a little more and so say, “I feel my most powerful when I feel myself feel like I feel.” ‘
Tawny Cypress plays adult Taissa, a leader in the wilderness who grows up as a politician. She has chosen the Senator of the State, but is dropped off before she even took on because of irregular behavior with regard to her trauma of the wilderness.
“I am a very angry person,” Cypress Yahoo said entertainment with a smile. “My mentor always said,” Acting is not a therapy! ” But I always treat as a therapy.
The cast of Yellowjackets Season 3. (Kailey Schwerman/Paramount+ with Showtime)
Christina Ricci plays adult Misty, an unusual but manipulative woman who stays on the edge of the social circle of the football team, even in adulthood. Ricci has become more comfortable with her anger than when she made her Hollywood debut at the age of 9.
‘My mother was yesterday like:’ Take a jacket! “I had something like that:” My anger will keep me warm, “Ricci told Yahoo Entertainment. “I have been in show business for a long time, so I like to scream in the car. I will take a ride and just scream, then come back and bark. ‘
Shauna’s daughter Callie never had to survive in the wilderness, but the teenager still experiences a lot of anger. She is played by Sarah Desjardins, who told Yahoo Entertainment that much of Callie’s anger has been internalized.
“It comes out in Petulante ways … I think Callie can initially be read wrong if just being a Bratty teenager,” she said. “I think it comes from a place of feeling really confused and longing for her mother’s love and not the disconnection of why it doesn’t happen.”
Melanie Lynskey and Warren Kole in Yellowjackets Season 3. (Colin Bentley/Paramount+ with Showtime)
Warren Kole plays Shauna’s husband, Jeff, who maintains a cheerful attitude, even when he is dragged in dark situations. Kole told Yahoo Entertainment that he was wondering why Jeff no longer had “furious moments” in season 2 and brought the lack of frustration of the character for the writing team.
‘They didn’t keep it wise [moments]”Said Kole. “I think [Jeff] Keep it under the surface and has a subconscious expression of anger through him who tries to be so helpful and so understanding. “
Simone Kessell and Courtney Eaton play the older and younger versions of Lottie respectively, whose spiritual visions make way for her position as a cult leader in both timelines. The show in relation to the line between the psychological and the supernatural, and Lottie always lingers in the gray area between the two.
“I don’t think she’s furious, but she has a lot of pain and pain in her that comes out in specific and unusual ways,” Eaton told Yahoo Entertainment. “Later in the season I think her anger shows herself as this euphoric feeling and lightness in her.”
“Lottie is scary, man!” Kevin Alves intervened before Eaton quickly shot back: “No, she’s not!” she said.
Alves plays Travis, one of the few young men who survive the plane crash with the football team.
“But in the best way. There is a lot of power there. It’s actually effortless, “said Alves. “That’s what is scary for me. Lottie can do anything. “
Although many of the actresses agreed that access to real anger is useful on the set, some spoke about the importance of not taking the dark themes of the show home.
“Two words: vodka soda,” Kessell said laughing.
“We love a nice Chardonnay,” said Lynskey. “It is difficult if a woman who has a family, and it is generally difficult as a woman. There is a lot of responsibility – there is a lot on your shoulders, and you don’t really get the luxury to take work home. “
She said there is always “something to organize and do something and someone to take care of.”
“You can’t just be:” Let me let Shauna let go for a few hours! ” You have to call the plumber, “said Lynskey.
The first two episodes of Yellowjackets Season 3 now stream on Paramount+ with Showtime. Season 3 will premiere on February 16 at Showtime.
